«Arts participation, unlike arts consumption and
cultural engagement generally, is not closely associated with either social class or social status,» said Dr Reeves in the article.
One thing that
engagement with this phenomenon has revealed, however, is that the «white male effect» is really a «white hierarchical and individualist male effect»: the extreme risk skepticism of white males with these
cultural outlooks is so great that it suggests white males
generally are less concerned, when in fact the gender and race divides largely disappear among people with alternative
cultural outlooks.